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dan hawkins's avatar

100,000 of us will take on your trolls. Don’t waste your time with them - leave it to us. We need your time for weeklies.

I love your attitude and thought process. You inspired me to start a sub stack, so thank you!

To go fortune cookie on you :

The future is decided by the optimistic.

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

For me, over 10k got toxic and I killed my account. I restarted Twitter @pointsnfigures1 and joined some other platforms @pointsnfigures. It's probably more that the overall conversation in America has become very toxic than the platform. As a person that has invested in startups at seed a long time, I am an optimist. Prior to that, I spent 30 years trading my own money on the trading floor at CME which makes me a realist. It's a nice internal balance when you are investing. You can't invest without having hope. But, intellectually if you can check yourself without confirmation bias you realize what a hill the company has to climb. As an early stage investor, the trick is figuring out if they have what it takes to climb, and if you have tools that you can lend them to make it slightly easier.

This year is going to be a tough year in America. The stock market's tide is going out, and we will see who is naked. I think there will be a lot of surprises. The drop is for several reasons, but the total disarray in current political leadership doesn't inspire confidence. Markets often can find a bottom when they are confident in consistent leadership.

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